Hello once again from The Review Board. Cat Crimes is a who’s-to-blame logic game/brainteaser challenge from ThinkFun that is playable either as a solo game or with as many players as one wants. In Cat Crimes, players select a challenge card and place the appropriate crime token (tangled yarn, broken plant, etc.) onto the table. […..]
I’m Patrick, a father of four children whose ages range from 3 to 14. I’m an incessant reader and prefer fantasy, sci-fi, Stephen King, behavioral economics, and biographies (Tolkien, Seuss, historical figures, etc). I also like good comics, good beer, and good bourbon. My wife is also a board game enthusiast and has fond memories […..]
“Stone by stone. Wall by wall. Tower by tower. Build your castles. Once built, prepare your armies for war. Have your troops sharpen their swords as well as their wits. Let the strength of their arms and courage of their hearts lead them as they march toward the battle line. Alliances will be forged and […..]
Hi, my name is Phil, and I recently launched a board game on Kickstarter. It’s called Wunderkammer: The Card Game of Curating Curious Collections. My reasons for making it have been motivated as much by my passion for the idea as a practical business endeavor. The goal of the game is to collect item cards […..]
Air hockey is one of the most popular table games next to foosball. While the rules of air hockey are pretty simple, the strategies that you can employ are endless. If you’re a newbie in the game, here are 5 tips for new air hockey players on how to win. Tip 1: The Triangle Defense […..]
This board game was developed during a Game Design Course at Politecnico di Milano by Luca Bonfanti, Alessandro Malcotti, Paola Mirra, Emanuele Palmiotti, Anita Righetto, and Paola Sarno. For this course we had to start from a famous phrase, create a concept and develop a board game. Our sentence was “Il tempo consuma tutte le cose” which basically means “Time […..]
We’re Ian and Lisa and back in 2008, our 2 children were in the early years of school starting to learn maths and basic numeracy. Every so often they’d come home with a puzzle or maths game designed to help them learn and we’d sit and play it with them. Unfortunately, it was normally a […..]